punk this week podcast: covenant eye + visual learner
Why are indie rock dude nipples so funny while the drummer from Visual Learner’s nipples are not?
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punk this week: real shocks, sick thoughts, visual learner, pardoner + 15 more
Plus Famous Mammals, CLAMM, Kelley Stoltz, the Monsters, PUST, Cheap Fix, and two sick benefit compilations.
smirk’s speculative fiction is based on a true story
Finding strange facts in fiction and mapping the band’s secret history with Ringo.
punk this week podcast: retail simps + tramhaus
Two sleepy punk critics discuss the most important topics: eating your friends’ pizza crusts and shampooing your bald head.
punk this week: retail simps, smashing times, death valley girls + 14 more
Soup Activists and CLASS kick off album cycles. Melbourne’s the Bolt Ons come on strong with their debut. Punk rules.
playlist: the 63 best punk songs of september 2026
Stewing on punk’s ephemeral nature and playlisting a red hot month for new music.
punk this week podcast: baby tyler + able baker
Looks like we got ourselves a Bizza boy, baby (Tyler)!
the best bands of gonerfest 23
Throwing beers. “I Smoke It, It Smokes Me.” Adult diapers. Twee pop shit talk. Nearly getting electrocuted. It all happened in Memphis at the 23rd Gonerfest.
punk this week: p.p. rebel, bad sports, tv buddha + 19 more
The Etters, Yuasa-Exide, Stef Chura, Baby Tyler. It’s a great big pile of good rock'n'roll records this Bandcamp Friday.
protomartyr’s joe casey still comes to jumbo’s. (just not every night.)
Sitting at the bar that looms large in his band’s legend, Casey discusses Detroit’s contemporary punk scene and the new album Hotel Usona.
punk this week podcast: gilla band + crv
Gurriers, Brain Tourniquet, and the deeply relatable fear of exiting the waterslide as a corpse.
punk this week: weird 1000, protomartyr, gash + 9 more
You like weird music? Come read about these weird punk records.
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if selfish teammate were a horse, they’d bite you
The Minneapolis duo’s “Field of Flowers” video features equine VHS studies and sweaty garage performances fried by video synth.
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toody cole could not be less interested in retirement
Sitting in the home she built with the late Fred Cole in Oregon, the Dead Moon hero sat down for a chat ranging from her childhood to the Rats to her latest EP.
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punk this week podcast: perennial + eraser
On a big week for punk shows and perhaps an even bigger week for new punk records.
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punk this week: fugitive bubble, early grave, the drin, c.o.f.f.i.n. + 14 more
Perennial, EVINSPRAGG, Wesley and the Boys, and Name Names are among the bands rounding out a massive week for new music.
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punk this week podcast: lack + unity
We celebrate trail mix nut variety, salty crunchies, and the late Domino. It’s episode 101. This one’s for the dogs.
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mesh’s boots on the pavement view of philadelphia
Following the release of their new album No Fun at All, the band discussed coming together pre-COVID, their slurry of influences, and the state of Philly’s DIY scene.
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punk this week: the tubs, soul glo, bed maker, twisted teens + 13 more
A monster of jangle, a powerhouse Amanda MacKaye performance, two big album announcements, new sprgrs, and more.
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1-800-mikey manifested a life goal with his perfect song “japan”
Two months after releasing 2024’s Digital Pet into the world, Mikey Barker fulfilled a life goal with a trip to Japan. Around that time, he sat down to discuss his vacation and his art.
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punk this week podcast 100: tense + 1-800-mikey
We celebrate the Punk This Week centennial with a gourmet delicacy rarely seen on our shores: Bizza Shapes.
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punk this week: eraser, 1-800-mikey, the go, spread joy + 27 more
It’s Labor Day weekend, which means a see/saw sale AND sick records from Generacion Suicida, Anytime Cowboy, Loose Lips, Retail Simps, and so many more.
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see/saw jukebox: gouge away’s christina michelle
The Portland-via-Florida screamer on perfect punk records, the self-conscious nature of vocal warm-ups, and her cat Noodle.
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puzzlehead’s new shoegaze jams beyond big sniff’s shadow
Katayoon Yousefbigloo talks writing with a band, her adversarial relationship with solo performance, and the new EP’s “no guitar solos” rule. “I’m really maturing.”